Charles Bliss is a teacher at a swanky New England boarding school.  With the students around day and night, it's very important to be mindful of how you conduct yourself.  As Charles likes to say, "You have to have boundaries."  When Charles is summoned to the head of school's office, he is blindsided by the accusation that he's had an improper relationship with a female student.  Though Charles vehemently denies any such thing, he is ordered to immediately leave the premises.  After taking up residence at a dingy motel, Charles has nothing but time and beer on his

Addison Dougherty didn't expect to become a widow after being married only ninety-seven days.  She had expected to make her now late husband, Richmond, suffer exponentially by ruining his sterling reputation when she revealed a deep, dark secret from his past.  But, after a couple of failed previous attempts, someone has managed to kill Richmond before Addison could carry out her plan.  Now the police, and everyone else in town, think that Addison killed him for his money.  She needs to keep herself out of jail so she can figure out who wanted Richmond dead besides her,

A mother's love knows no bounds.  That sentiment is the heart of this story about three mothers trying to get their sons into a prestigious prep school.  Estella and Bec are friends who have been preparing their boys for years for coveted places at St.

A dead body, unidentifiable thanks to a shotgun blast to the face, is found in the southern Louisiana swamp.  A  mother is looking for her son, a supposedly recovered addict, but the local police can't be bothered to look for a grown man who most likely has simply succumbed to the lure of drugs yet again.  A small-town golden boy, former football star, doesn't show up for a hunting trip with his brother and nobody in the family has heard from him for days.  The general description of the body could be either one of the missing men.  Is this three separate cases or a

Here's a twist on the most famous twister story of all time.  A tornado destroys the Gale farm in Kansas and for several days their niece, Dorothy, (and her little dog, too) are missing.  When she is finally found in a pumpkin patch two miles away, the relief is short-lived as Dorothy's explanation of where she's been includes a blasphemous tale about an unbelievable land inhabited by magical creatures and talking animals.  But the most damning part of the story is Dorothy's claim that she "melted" a witch, killing her.  The townspeople are unsure what to make of this ad

Early on a mid-September morning in 2016, a call came in to the 911 dispatchers in Ashland, Ohio.  A woman, speaking so softly the operator could barely hear her, claimed she had been abducted and was being held hostage in a vacant house near the downtown area.  Her abductor was asleep in the bed.  Officers arrived on the scene and were able to persuade the terrified woman to unlock a door so they could quietly get her out of harm's way.  Then they went in and arrested Shawn Grate, unaware that this was the beginning of what might be Ashland's most infamous case ever.&nb

There's trouble in Paradise.  Mauna Loa is days away from what could be its most violent eruption ever.  John MacGregor and the other scientists at the Hawaiian Volcano Observatory are scrambling to come up with a plan to keep the lava flow from destroying the city of Hilo.  As if that isn't bad enough, the United States Army has sought out MacGregor to make him aware of a military secret harbored in one of the caves surrounding Mauna Loa.  There's deadly hazardous waste in degrading containers in the path of the lava that could destroy all life on earth if released.&nbs

Becoming the most revered hitman in the world wasn't an easy task.  What's even more difficult?  Quitting.  When Mark, aka the Pale Horse, decides it's time to get out of the business, he joins an Alcoholics Anonymous type 12-step program for killers.  As he's cleaning up after a meeting, he is attacked by a Russian with an agenda.  Mark manages to get out of the church basement without killing the Russian or being killed, but he's so badly injured he has to seek out covert medical attention from Astrid, who provides emergency room type treatment in her apartment wi

In late 60's Virginia, a Black man is charged with the murder of his employers, a prominent White couple.  There's virtually no evidence against him except for being found with the dead couple when the police arrived.  His family enlists Jack Lee, a local (White) lawyer with no murder trial experience, to mount a defense.  Jack is feeling a little out of his league when some unexpected help shows up - Desiree Dubose, an NAACP lawyer from Chicago.  As the trial date draws near, some of the locals are unhappy about Jack defending a Black man and about him working with a Bl